Road Patrol NI

donvito99

Documentary series following the daily duties of the officers of the PSNI Road Policing Unit, who have their patience tested by boy racers, drink drivers, bad language and bad behaviour on the roads. The officers deal with a disqualified driver with memory problems, and excessive speeders who risk a lot more than their licenses.

MONDAY, 1st FEBRUARY, 10.35pm BBC 1 NI.

Well, heres hoping Traffic Blues syndrome didn't spread across the border...:p

We might even see PSNI...

Bosco boy

Whats traffic blues syndrome???

donvito99

Traffic Blues Syndrome =

-Extremely poor look on how police really work.
-Ridiculous amount of editing by police management.
-Police not functioning as they normally would due to cameras.
-Over hyping everything, ie. "Next week on Traffic Blues, a driver is caught not wearing his seatbelt"
-c.24 minutes of programme
-Quite boring

/rant

BTW, Traffic Blues was a programme aired by RTÉ last summer following the work of Traffic Corps, it didn't go very well, as some posters will say, me included.

belfast stephen

i seen the ad on bbc1 on friday night looks a god programe let hope the in not like traffic blues and a bit more like road wars

Random

looking forward to this show. series linked on sky+. thanks op

pa990

is this only on bbc1 ni
Or will it be on the other variants as well ?

belfast stephen

just watched the show and must say very good

barney 20v

belfast stephen wrote: »

just watched the show and must say very good

I agree totally. well made and looking at all the sunshine in the program cheered me up!

Locust

Great show - really enjoyed it as opposed to Traffic Blues. They all seem to have a pretty good sense of humor and do the job fairly professionally... some nifty gadgets too.

belfast stephen

he is a link to the show

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qn0m5


Edit-Only available in the UK.

AlekSmart

Great show - really enjoyed it as opposed to Traffic Blues. They all seem to have a pretty good sense of humor and do the job fairly professionally... some nifty gadgets too.

There`s quite a strong message here for those prepared to engage in debating it,however it might equally provoke a thread lock so perhaps best left unsaid.

donvito99

Just a reminder that its on again tonight, same bat time, same bat channel.......

Irish_polizei

donvito99 wrote: »

Just a reminder that its on again tonight, same bat time, same bat channel.......

Eh just remind us there what bat means... :rolleyes::P

Locust

bat = brilliant awesome time
haha

one2one

"No guard it was a stone" - seriously, I've heard all sorts, but is he really that stupid? The car is in bits - its OBVIOUS a body has come in contact with that vehicle!!

belfast stephen

another great epaside nice to see a sliver unmarked Vauxhall Omega on the show

CharlieCroker

marked RangeRover looked well. NGA prob blew his load when he saw that!!!

Shield

CharlieCroker wrote: »

NGA prob blew his load when he saw that!!!

Actually did LOL at that...

Hooch

CharlieCroker wrote: »

marked RangeRover looked well. NGA prob blew his load when he saw that!!!

Some show lad!

That Range Rover is a dream!!!

Irish_polizei

one2one wrote: »

"No guard it was a stone" - seriously, I've heard all sorts, but is he really that stupid? The car is in bits - its OBVIOUS a body has come in contact with that vehicle!!

I nearly died when i seen that fella, came accross him on phase 2 few years ago..

donvito99

Irish_polizei wrote: »

Eh just remind us there what bat means... :rolleyes::P

Did ya ever see the live action Batman shows from the 60s?! (Not that I was around then!)

bat = brilliant awesome time
haha

I like

donvito99

Ye gotta say the show was pretty damn good. From a televisual point of view it flowed well, had all the interviews with the coppers on the street, and didn't have an annoying narrator butting in with advice or stupid comments every 30 seconds, unlike traffic blues.





The accents were funny as hell as well...

Irish_polizei

donvito99 wrote: »

I like

:P, nah never heard of batman from the 60's full stop >>.<<:P

Good show last night though!! Next weeks is the last episode i think!

donvito99

Irish_polizei wrote: »

:P, nah never heard of batman from the 60's full stop >>.<<:P

Good show last night though!! Next weeks is the last episode i think!

OT, but maybe this might ring a bell...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFhk2WJMGCQ

So in two episodes we have had some drink drivers, no insurance, no licence, and some speeders.

The only difference between that and Traffic Blues is the quality of the production.

Oh, and better equipment.

belfast stephen

And better cars

Shield

And better looking officers...

Random

I thought the clip with the Dublin junkie was brilliant. Interesting to see the cooperation between the PSNI / Gardai too with all the information they were able to obtain relatively quickly.

AlekSmart

Foreign said....

The only difference between that and Traffic Blues is the quality of the production.

Oh, and better equipment.

I`m not so sure that "only" quality equipment and production values can explain it away so easily.

There is,I feel,an attitudinal "thing" going on here also.
It`s difficult,if not impossible to describe in black and white but once experienced,its never forgotten or misinterpreted again.

Traffic Blues just did`nt seem to be aimed at a discerning adult audience...let alone members of this august forum

AlekSmart

AlekSmart wrote: »

Foreign said....

I`m not so sure that "only" quality equipment and production values can explain it away so easily.

There is,I feel,an attitudinal "thing" going on here also.
It`s difficult,if not impossible to describe in black and white but once experienced,its never forgotten or misinterpreted again.

Traffic Blues just did`nt seem to be aimed at a discerning adult audience...let alone members of this august forum

Can you explain the attitudinal thing? Not sure what you mean.

I still think it was a good show just like I think Traffic Blues has potential to be a good show. UK TV have been doing shows like this for a long time so know how to do it correctly. Hopefully we will see another series of Traffic Blues where the production is improved.

Irish_polizei

foreign wrote: »

Can you explain the attitudinal thing? Not sure what you mean.

I still think it was a good show just like I think Traffic Blues has potential to be a good show. UK TV have been doing shows like this for a long time so know how to do it correctly. Hopefully we will see another series of Traffic Blues where the production is improved.

And not just with TC, maybe the dag unit, yes dags, alpha sierra, water unit.....with little or no editing apart from the minor things...that would make a good show IMO...:)

belfast stephen

the last in the series tonight bb1 10:35pm or 22:35

Shield

It's actually an alright show. Not over-produced, no dumbed down commentary, and hopefully it will be an eye opener to those who think Traffic is 100mph blue light runs day in, day out.

Well done lads.

Jip

I think the main problem with Traffic Blues was that the general public, myself included in that, saw the gardai highlighted in that show as being too soft on some ridiculous road traffic offences. Two I can think of off hand was the woman trying to reverse down the slip road to avoid a checkpoint who had a pile of unrestrained kids in the car and the guy in the SUV type thing who while being followed ran a red light at a roundabout, when finally caught up with parked in the central reservation and then was let away relatively unscathed.

It was a bit of a PR disaster really.

meathstevie

I've never understood the concept of traffic lights on a roundabout ? Why build a roundabout in the first place ? Anyway, all that aside. I'd say quite often traffic police be it Garda or PSNI will deal with a whole range of offences. It's not because they're not first in the pecking order to go and lift a shoplifter that the only thing they do is write tickets and that's what's been highlighted nicely by the BBC show.